H.R. 98: Preventing Termination of Utility Services in Bankruptcy Act of 2015
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H.R. 98: Preventing Termination of Utility Services in Bankruptcy Act of 2015
114th Congress · introduced 2015-01-06 · Finance and Financial Sector · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2015-01-06 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Preventing Termination of Utility Services in Bankruptcy Act of 2015
Plain summary
Preventing Termination of Utility Services in Bankruptcy Act of 2015 Amends federal bankruptcy law, with respect to the prohibition against disruption of utility services to a debtor, to declare that an individual debtor may not be required to furnish assurance of payment if he or she pays, within 20 days after the date of the order for relief, those debts owed to a utility for service during that period, and afterward also pays when due debts owed for service during the pendency of the case in bankruptcy.
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Official text
Preventing Termination of Utility Services in Bankruptcy Act of 2015
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13] · 4 cosponsors
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Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-114hr98.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/hr>
Record fed-us-cong114-hr98 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114